Rachel fell off a cliff at Turner Falls, bruised, battered, but will recover

http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=a00368 kind of explains what a transverse process fracture is. To quote "transverse process fractures are predominantly treated with gradual increase in motion, with or without bracing, based on comfort level."

She fell about twenty feet. They are coming home tonight so Win told me not to drive up, expects we would just pass each other on the way. I feel helpless, obviously.

If she was worse off, I'd feel even worse. I had to go to work today, have to go in for a hearing set by a judge tomorrow and while it is a telephone hearing, they said no cell phones. Otherwise I'd have been up there with them, I had vacation scheduled so we could go as a family.

A terrible thing to tell Heather about, except we couldn't hide it from her either. So Win called her to give her a heads up, I called her when we had more news. I'm just grateful it is "battered and bruised" rather that "broken" or worse.